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I used a Rift for DCS and it was amazing graphically. Hard to go back to playing on a screen and using a HOTAS hat to capture your view (or head tracker).

But you better have your HOTAS controls memorized because it's a pain not having visibility of them.

> Propose ASCII drawings to explain complete systems.

LLMs are very bad at ASCII drawings.

https://medium.com/data-science/why-llms-suck-at-ascii-art-a...

I separated around the same time, and at about the same age, also in a new city. It was rough. A city I never wanted to be in. I'd never find friends there.

A few years later, I have a couple friends that like you, I can just call them up or text and they're available. There are great places to meet, eat, and clubs to join.

Or, when I have fingerprint and PIN enabled but my lid closed, whenever it asks for escalation it shows the PIN entry for a moment, then I look away and start typing but fingerprint had loaded up and steals focus. Then I have to click back on PIN, and retype.

I use this on my work machine, with Cortile for tiling.

> I might just be getting old, but more and more I see people not using indicators and not understanding the rules of junctions. Tail gating also really annoying.

Same. I've also noticed that people entering the interstate seem to _expect_ that cars already on the interstate move over, or change speed to let them merge. Usually at 10-15 MPH slower than the speed of traffic.

I've made a point to, when I cannot move over, remain in my lane at the same speed. And I've had people just absolutely wait until the last moment of a long on-ramp to speed up, or slow down to merge. It's bizarre.

> Lately, I see a lot of drivers who turn on their brights and just leave them on and this includes cars with the older halogen and even incandescents. This is a change in behavior.

This is one of my pet peeves.

I've categorized it into what I believe are the main causes:

1. People just don't know as well today that the blue indicator means you're blinding people

2. People with newer cars which will automatically turn off the headlights, including the brights, when you turn off and leave the car.

3. People with older cars where the low-beams are burned out or broken

I've been tempted to purchase digital billboard space to raise awareness. Eg., "If this blue indicator is on, you're blinding everyone".

And/or, get a mirror on my trunk that I can adjust the angle of from inside the cabin to reflect back high-beams at the driver.

Mostly I'm hoping that automatic high-beams, like some Ford trucks I've seen do well, proliferate more!

I have Win 10 LTSC, and it came with none of that. But it is behind on feature updates.

Intersection of cloud compute power being plentiful combined with existing LMs. As I understand it, right now, it's really just throwing compute power at existing LMs to learn on gigantic datasets.

the name reminds me of Microsoft's RDC, Remote Differential Compression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Differential_Compressio...

> And even if proper passwords are used, many sites/apps use this pattern for account recovery if the password is forgotten so effectively this is the only security as an attacker has “forgotten” the password and just uses this flow to login.

Was about to post just this. This is the flow they use for account recovery so it's the weakest link in the chain anyway.

> Forscan for Ford vehicles also has to run under Windows.

I've successfully run it with WINE. Thought, my Forscan executable was 3 years old or so and that may have changed, but I doubt it.

Companies aren't going to invest 4+ years to get a supply-chain setup in the US when they can just wait for the next administration to roll these back. It's just needless economic turbulence.

Reminds me of Nissan dot com lawsuit:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...

> The speed limit is a LIMIT not a requirement.

But after traffic analysis by engineers, the final number is set by politicians.

I've had logging slow down a concurrency issue enough to cause the race condition to never appear when logged, but setting a breakpoint (and stopping all threads) prevailed.

It acquires bugs, security flaws, and obsolescence from the operating system itself.

hey gotta do something on the toilet

Wow! I had a copy Cool Edit from a CompuServe CD, IIRC. That got me into audio editing and making my own ringtones and whatnot.

I just made one last week that cracks me up still:

// We are liiiiiving in a material world, and I am a ma-ma-material org.

const materialOrgs = await db_read<Org>(organizations, { type: 'materials' });

How do you pronounce the name?

as someone who divorced and didn't want to be the 'mac and cheese dad', I found an older edition of "Williams Sonoma Cooking at Home" a really good beginner book. It goes over basic ingredients, seasonality, cooking methods, cooking tools, proper measuring, and complementary sides before hopping into recipes. I found all of these very valuable as _tons_ of recipes assume basic knowledge of it.

A lot of the recipes are quite involved though so now I tend to go for simpler ones, or pick-and-choose.

I've been at it for over a decade. Home router has firewall exceptions for SSH (not port 22 though), TLS IRC, and 80/443, which are forwarded to my home server with fail2ban.

I run SSH (requires PKI outside local network), IRC, nextcloud, and ampache (though don't really use ampache anymore :( ).

Home server is encrypted RAID6 Arch Linux. If I had to do it again I'd forego rolling releases and use something more stable, like Debian.

Encrypted backups are done to backblaze once a month. I also have a backup drive that I plug in on occasion, encrypted of course.

Which reminds me my RAID6 drives are getting old now... I'm tempted to move to a VPS.

You still can. I did it just now with this text field form. Hit pause, and then the next event (focusing the text field) caused it to break.

You'll know we hit it big when malicious actors start developing more threats against Linux.

Ha, MS has Recall which is like this ... but obviously it's had problems.

I don't think you can generalize it like that. Hunger comes from signals originating in your stomach. Without a stomach, you're brain would lose energy -- and I'd wager the symptoms would be more like oxygen deprivation than "hunger".

It wasn't so much "science was settled" as much as the plastic industry lobbying to improve their image and put the burden on consumers to "recycle" plastics, despite knowing it wasn't going to help things. And unlike conspiracy theories -- we have evidence.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-pl...

I have moved to Arch Linux 100% for work and personal use. I too have a Windows 10 machine for gaming -- but it runs LTSC, which is _much_ more super user friendly, less user hostile.

What a refreshing article. One I can understand for a change.